Friday, August 11, 2017

China
is the real power behind the "animal" it has bred – North Korea – in
the view of retired Air Force lieutenant general Thomas G. McInerney.
And if necessary, the United States should be prepared to use nuclear
weapons to neutralize the threat North Korea represents to the United
States.

With
the crisis situation involving North Korea leading the news on
Thursday, one of the more interesting, provocative, and sobering
analyses I heard was offered by Gen. McInerney, who retired in 1994
after a distinguished 35-year career in the military that began after he
graduated from West Point in 1959. During the Vietnam War, McInerney
flew over 400 combat missions and then served in a variety of high-level
command positions around the world. In recent years, he has been a
contributor to Fox News, and he appears often in the media. On September 6, 2016, along with 88 other retired U.S. generals and admirals, McInerney endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency.

On
Thursday, August 10, McInerney appeared on Sean Hannity's radio program
and gave his opinions on the North Korea situation. The transcription
of Hannity's Q&A with McInerney is my best effort based on the program's audio podcast that went online after the show aired.

SEAN HANNITY: All these years of appeasement haven't borne any fruit, have they?

In a troubling repudiation of President Donald Trump’s demands that
Beijing do more to rein in its bellicose neighbor, Beijing, through the
state-owned media, cautioned the US president on Friday that it would
intervene (militarily) on North Korea’s behalf if the US and South Korea
launch a preemptive strike to “overthrow the North Korean regime,”
according to a statement in the influential state-run newspaper Global
Times.

"If
the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the
North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean
Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so," it said.

At the same time, the Chinese regime made it clear that its
preferred outcome would be a continuation of the status quo, warning Kim
Jong Un that it would "remain neutral if North Korea were to strike first."

Yes, Vietnam has its problems. Its people
continue to be led by a one-party government. Its military wields far
too much power over the economy and government. The Vietnamese
population, though young at the moment, will require greater and more
expensive services as it ages. Nevertheless, these challenges are minor
compared to what the Vietnamese people are gaining from their dedication
to rule-based capitalism. And one day, when capitalism has empowered a
strong middle class, Vietnam will follow capitalism to its inevitable
destination: democracy.

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No theory has done more to reduce
poverty and empower social mobility than capitalism. It’s a practical
theory that actively makes people’s lives better. No one understands
that better than capitalism’s beneficiaries. Just ask the people of
Vietnam.

According
to two recent Pew research polls, 95 percent of Vietnamese support free
market economics and 76 percent have a positive view of the United
States. It’s not hard to understand why. Benefiting from a young
population of entrepreneurially dynamic citizens, foreign investment and
powerhouse export markets (the United States is Vietnam’s top export
destination), Vietnam’s economy grew by nearly 6 percent in 2014. This
year, Vietnam is on track for gross domestic product growth above 6
percent.

Capitalism, in short, is working wonders for the people of Vietnam. And they’re feeling that wonder in their pockets.

For rich countries? A 4-6 percent economic decline would be the
endorsement of a permanent great depression. Again, employment, living
standards, productivity, and aspiration would all fall by the wayside.
And as individuals jockeyed to survive, corruption would grow endemic.

Forget innovations such as new medicines, new iPhones, and high-value research. The future would be bleak, and perpetually so.

But don't take Hickel's word or my attestations for it.

Ask the people of Vietnam. Once communists, (They still are) they are now the world's most avowed proponents of capitalism.

They are the proof of Hickel's lie.

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Even the Soviets sought to maximize economic output. But today's
contemporary far-left are far bolder: they believe that economics itself
is wrong.

From their perspective, government shouldn't simply control the means
of economic production (socialism), it should actively work to reduce
gross domestic product (GDP).

Enter Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics, a man on a crusade to end "the tyranny of GDP."

An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow read the stunning timeline
breakdown of the Lynch-Clinton tarmac docs on his radio show Friday
morning.

Sekulow pointed out that upper level crisis management
stepped in and responded to an email inquiry within ONE MINUTE of the
news breaking that Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton met on the Phoenix
tarmac in June of 2016. The internal panic is very telling. The Obama
administration along with Lynch and Comey were doing everything they
could to get this under control by creating talking points to deceive
the public.

Jay Sekulow also found an email directly connecting the Obama White House to the AG Lynch scandal. This is an incredible discovery by Sekulow and his team as they uncover more lies about this tarmac meeting.

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice for all
non-disclosure agreements pertaining to the handling, storage,
protection, dissemination, and/or return of classified information that
were signed by or on behalf of former FBI Director James Comey (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01624)).

The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia after the Justice Department failed to respond to a June
13, 2017, FOIA request seeking “any and all non-disclosure agreements
pertaining in full or in part to the handling, storage, protection,
dissemination, and/or return of classified and/or sensitive information
that were signed by or on behalf of former FBI Director James Comey.”
Such records would include:

All SF-312 (Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement) forms

All FD-857 (Sensitive Information Nondisclosure Agreement) forms

All FD-597 (Receipt for Property Received/Returned/Released or Seized) forms

All FD-291 (FBI Employment Agreement) forms

All Case Briefing Acknowledgement forms

“How is it the FBI allowed Mr. Comey to walk out the door with
sensitive documents about President Trump?” said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. “It is remarkable that we have to sue the FBI in
federal court to get these answers about this scandal.”

Disney Junior released an episode of a cartoon aimed at preschoolers that depicted two "married" lesbian moms.

Doc McStuffins, a show about an aspiring doctor who "fixes"
toys with help from friends, featured a family led by two "moms" in its
August 5 episode "The Emergency Plan."

Although Doc McStuffins has been praised by many cultural
critics for its depiction of a young African-American female doctor,
it's now under fire for its most recent episode pushing same-sex
"marriage."

Police in the city of Aarhus,
Denmark introduced the scheme after 36 young men travelled to Syria to
join jihad, with 19 returning back to the country.

But the policy
has been criticised by Danish MPs, with Naser Khadeer – a Muslim member
of the Conservative People’s party – calling for a hardline approach to
foreign fighters.

Speaking on the Australian news programme
Dateline, he said: “What I have criticised when it comes to the Aarhus
model is when you have been in Syria and you come back, it is wrong in
my opinion to reward whoever has been in Syria by giving them an
apartment, jobs, education.

President Trump's tweeted threat to North Korea may signal a
willingness by the U.S. to do something it has never done before —
attempt to shoot down an enemy missile in a real world scenario.

"Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should
North Korea act unwisely," Trump tweeted this morning, escalating a war
of words that North Korea said earlier Friday is "driving the situation
on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war."

While Trump added,
"Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" the Pentagon has
confirmed military options have been drawn up.

"Do I have military options? Of course I do," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters Thursday. "And of course, there's a military solution."

Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin is asking for congressmen to sign
onto a letter requesting that special counsel Robert Mueller appear
publicly in a congressional hearing, The Daily Caller has learned.

Mueller, who is investigating Russian election interference and
possible ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, has come under
intense criticism from allies of President Donald Trump for hiring
attorneys who have donated to Democratic candidates and for his personal
relationship with former FBI Director James Comey. Trump himself has
called Mueller’s employment of Democratic donors “ridiculous,” yet he
maintains that he has no plans to dismiss the special counsel.

14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office states:
“Before Estill Police Officer Quincy Smith answered a service call for a
possible armed robbery, he flipped on the body-camera goggles he
purchased for himself over the Internet. Months later, while testifying
against the man who tried to kill him, he called it the best $30 he ever
spent. Here’s the footage, captured by Smith, that helped convict
Malcolm Antwan Orr, 29, of attempted murder and possession of a weapon
during the commission of a violent crime.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.